Cheering For—And Buying—English Football Teams

IT CAN BE TIRING, following traditional avenues to wealth growth. Shares can become humdrum, bonds sleepier still. Real estate has its merits, especially if your wealth needs a safer venue than home (like London for Russians). Increasingly, however, folks with stashes to torch seem to enjoy acquiring more interesting baubles, like European professional soccer teams.

Less exotic than Indian professional cricket, but with much more upside than established American sports, European soccer teams, especially English ones,...